Predicting The Metacritic Scores For 2016's Biggest Video Games
12. No Man's Sky (80)
No Man's Sky is going to be this year's game that gets a lot of critical lee-way for its insane level of ambition...even though it's actually not that incredible. It may very well be "the Spore of 2016", though likely not nearly as underwhelming as that title was.
The problem with this game is that people have a pre-existing idea of what it should be, and Hello Games haven't done a terrific job of letting us know exactly what it's going to be.
Though it's reasonable to expect a lot of player backlash, critics are likely to be a little more understanding and probably still give it the benefit of the doubt, even if No Man's Sky likely won't end up with the Game of the Year accolades everyone's hoping for.